Not really silver... let's call it a pewter lining.
Now that John Kerry has conceded (good speech, by the way), I'm going to do a very un-blog-like thing:
I'm going to look on the bright side.
Here are some reasons why we, the people who care about the tangible (jobs, the mess in Iraq) instead of the intangible (terrorist boogie men, moral values), can be thankful that John Kerry lost:
- Even if John Kerry had won the electoral college, he would have lost the popular vote. This is one of the complaints levied against George Bush from 2000, and it would have made John Kerry look pretty bad going into office.
- Nixon won a second term. Remember how that went?
- Iraq cannot be fixed. John Kerry would be blamed that he didn't fix it.
- Democrats have a running start to raise money for the 2008 election.
- After watching gay rights get shithammered yesterday and seeing the disparity between how whites and minorities voted, folks are going to get fed up pretty fast. A social uprising is well underway.
Furthermore, and this may make me unpopular, but I'm glad that Tom Daschle lost. I've always thought Daschle was a pussy and that the Democrats needed new leadership in the Senate. If that leader becomes Dick Durbin, then we will have someone who can rally the Dems and will also be very close to Barack Obama, the new Denzel Washington of the Senate.
I have more thoughts about 2008 and what the next four years will be like and what we can do about it. Blogger is all sorts of screwed up right now; I'm surprised I was able to post this much.
More to come...
2 Comments:
"New"? Hell, Barack is the ONLY Denzel in the Senate. Fuckin' crackers.
Those points represent some of the same solace to which I began to cling desperately last night - when it appeared that K-John was trailing in Ohio, Florida, and a couple of other critical states by an aggrivating sigle digit percentage margin.
When Colin Powell was advising Dubya on his Iraq War (V2.0), he told him: "If you go in there, you own the place..." The White House is a lot like Iraq. It's a mess. Whomever inherits the Oval Office after four years of Dubyanomics is going to have to suffer the aftermath - even if it is Dubya himself.
Personally, as a K-John voter, I am more comfortable as a member of the "I Told You So" Minority than I would have been as one of All the President Elect's Men; trying to explain to the Hannityites of the world that France and Germany are way too pissed at America after four years of ultimatums and outright insults to play ball - no matter who helms the Empire.
Let dubya lay in his bed. He made it. Hopefully, he will give himself enough rope to hang his whole party. I just hope that rope is not long enough to include room for all of us to swing from the gibbet.
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